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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
A Picture Defeats a Thousand Defensive Republican Talking Points
Per Josh Marshall, posted on the White House website is a picture of President Bush being briefed by videoconference by National Hurricane Center Chief Max Mayfield on Sunday August 28th.
Raises some interesting questions about, after being told about the possible consequences of the storm, why he then chose to attend McCain's birthday party and play guitar in San Diego, doesn't it? And why didn't he see that everything was done that could be done to provide relief assistance? Sound like he had a similar reaction to the PDB on August 6, 2001. We're talking about sheer incompetence here.
I'm waiting for Fox News and the conservative columnists and bloggers to go back to the drawing board on this one.
Sen. Reid raises an important point:
In a letter to the Senate's Homeland Security Committee chairwoman, Reid,
the Senate Democratic leader, pressed for a wide-ranging investigation and
answers to several questions, including: ''How much time did the president spend
dealing with this emerging crisis while he was on vacation? Did the fact that he
was outside of Washington, DC have any effect on the federal
government's response?''
But Nancy Pelosi shows how truly stunningly out of it the President is:
At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency had ''absolutely no credentials.''
She related that she had urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to
fire Michael Brown.''He said 'Why would I do that?''' Pelosi said.
'''I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right last
week.' And he said 'What didn't go right?'''
''Oblivious, in denial, dangerous,'' she added.
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